Boasting an extensive and diverse slate of projects from creators across Canada, BGPD focuses on nurturing and developing both feature films as well as scripted and unscripted television series from concept to script to pitch.
CURRENT DEVELOPMENT SLATE
FEATURES
BOOB JOB
In this coming-of-age dramedy (think Booksmart meets Thelma and Louise), we meet RYDER, a teenage girl suffering from low self-esteem, who tracks down her musician deadbeat dad WYATT in search of overdue child support to pay for the breast implants she thinks will change her life. Embarking on a road trip, Ryder and her best friend SOPHIE confront Wyatt, only to discover he’s broke. Realizing he doesn’t recognize the daughter he hasn’t seen in years, the girls conceal their identities to help him in a small-time drug deal with a major payoff, as all the while Ryder secretly hopes to connect with the man who abandoned her.
Genre: Comedy, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Kimberly Izzo (screenwriter)
Supported by: Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film & Music
THE EVENING CHORUS
James, an RAF airman imprisoned in a German POW camp, turns to birdwatching to escape the relentless oppression while his wife, Rose, falls into a passionate love affair with a Canadian soldier and James' sister Enid loses her home and her lover in the London blitz. Three lives intertwined by nature, love and loss. Based on the novel by Helen Humphries.
Co-production with Alkaia FIlms
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Helen Humphries (novelist), Adrienne Mitchell (director), Dennis Foon (screenwriter)
Supported by: Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film & Music, Ontario Media Development Corporation
KOSHETZ
Based on actual events.Set in 1919 during a period of political unrest - empires are falling, small nations are emerging, and communism is gradually spreading across Eastern Europe. Koshetz uses his musical talent to aid his country. However, the further he goes, the more he realizes that the idealistic fight he is leading is a mere pawn in the hands of those playing bigger games. Through the eyes of Koshetz, we witness the inner turmoil of a man whose artistic pursuits are entangled with the larger political landscape.
Co-production with Toy Cinema, Ukraine
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Veronika Stepanchuk, Kristina Tynkevych, Dennis Foon
Supported by: Telefilm Canada
THE LION IN WINNIPEG
In October 1900, Winston Churchill is 25 years old… and very much in love. Unfortunately, his intended, Pamela Plowden, is also being sought after by the cream of the Empire’s eligible bachelors. Winston needs an edge. He believes that a speaking tour in North America to promote his book on his South African adventures is just the ticket: surely fortune and fame await.
Co-production with Copperheart Entertainment http://www.copperheart.ca/
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Larry Bambrick
Supported by: Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film and Music
TELEVISION
HAUS OF CONTRALATA
Genre: Drama, Scripted, Limited Series
Co-production with 10109229 Manitoba Ltd.
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Anjali Sandhu (creator), Amber-Sekowan Daniels (Story Editor)
Supported by: Canada Media Fund
THE HARDWAY
The Hardway brothers, one a former cop, the other a former criminal, solve crime while running a PI firm/repo business/bail bonds/you name it fixer service in their small town.
Genre: Procedural, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Richard Leacock, Viv Leacock
SINS
A taut procedural drama following a warring family of lawyers working both sides of notorious and dramatic whistleblower cases.
Genre: Legal Procedural, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Brendan Howley, Ron Hikel
SUSPICIOUS BITCHES
A reclusive ex-homicide detective, a morally ambiguous human rights lawyer and a bullish young stuntwoman solve crimes in their sunny, gated community while investigating the disappearance of the douchebag who connects them all. Suspicious Bitches is a one-hour procedural that examines female trauma with a light touch.
Genre: Light procedural, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Diana Frances, Kate Hewlett
Supported by: Manitoba Film and Music
THE SQUEEZE
When recently divorced Georgia moves back into her childhood home from Vancouver with her teenage daughter Emery, she butts heads with her overbearing and agoraphobic mom Lydia and struggles to stay connected to Emery who is navigating her own journey with her girlfriend Jasmine.
Genre: Comedy, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Tessa Emery
WINNIPEG STREETS
When a family of Syrian refugees opens a café in the West End of Winnipeg, they quickly find themselves the centre of an eclectic makeshift community of cultures.
Co-production with Snow Angel Films Inc.
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Nilufer Rahman
Supported by: Canada Media Fund, Manitoba Film and Music
WITH KISTIKAN PICTURES INC
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Tina Keeper
FEATURES
LUMINOUS
Co-production with JJNeepinFilms Inc.
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: JJ Neepin, Justina Neepin
Supported by: Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film and Music
TELEVISION
THE REDS
** IN DEVELOPMENT WITH BELL MEDIA INC. **
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Tina Keeper, Vanessa Loewen, Jennifer Beasley
Supported by: Canada Media Fund, Bell Media Inc.
VANILLA
Co-production with Code Breaker Films Inc.
Genre: Drama, Scripted
Status: In Development
Creative Talent: Sage Daniels, Anthony Q Farrell
Supported by: Canada Media Fund, Manitoba Film and Music